MikroTik

Anyone have any luck making the 730L work?

LTE interface keeps dropping with this device attached. Works fine on other machines.

RB951 and RB3011 both have the same issue. Factory reset. Seems to be incompatible. Running 6.44

I saw a reddit post saying that disabling Fast Path fixed the issue. I've disabled FastPath in IP>Settings but still have the same issue. Wanted to see if I'm wasting my time trying to get this to work or if it simply just doesn't. Seems to be constantly getting new IP addresses every few seconds.

Just plugged this bad boy in with 6.44.2 software. I have the same results you do, or did? Ever find a fix?

Gave up on it. But I did find out about something called the Verizon SmartHub which worked. Other benefit is that it has a hardwired ethernet port and doesn't use USB. It is a full blown router though not just a modem.

Thanks. I'm thinking its more than likely the current rating on the USB port of the tik. The Verizon radio takes up to 900 mA, the wall wart is 1.2 amps... it works fine on my notebook where the USB ports are rated at 1 amp.

It starts to sag on bandwidth right before it shuts down the adapter. I attached it to a bench supply observed the port seems to chop the current off, it doesn't get anywhere near the 900 mA. It works great in the beginning, but as heating begins in the tik (i assume) it starts to fall apart at a more frequent rate.

I will look into the other radio. It's all surface mount resistors.... otherwise I would try and beef it up.

Verizon USB730L
Working well for me, on a little map2nD
Powered with the 24 Volt transformer
USB on the adapter cable

My steps:
Running 6.42.7
Started with Factory config
Disabled FastTrack rule in firewall (this prevented the 2 step DHCP sequence for some reason )
Configured wlan / Wifi standard WPA PSK, WPA2 PSK.
Disabled DHCP client on ETH 1,
ETH1 in the bridge
ETH2 in the bridge
Wlan in the bridge

Changed NAT/Masquerade OUT interface to "all". ( because the LTE port doesn't exist at startup )

That was it. Worked OK , except....
After a reboot/restart it got into a strange LTE loop after a restart.

I then :
Created a 10 second USB power delay script. /system routerboard usb power-reset duration=10s
Created a schedule to run the script at startup

Works great!

After reboot/restart it waits 10 seconds after boot to power up the USB modem.
It then starts the USB,
cretaes the LTE interface
LTE goes up, down, then up.
LTE gets 192.168.1.1
It then loses DHCP for 192.168.1.1
Then it gets a real (route-able) IP from Verizon

Here, I'm getting 10- 12 Mb/s on Verizon, testing with Speedtest.net
Enough to stream 2 devices, 4K video on Youtube.

Dean

Nice job with the workaround!

The SmartHub has been bullet-proof in my case. I actually got 2 more and activated them at $10/month per unit for backup WAN (data only). If you activate them fully, you can even get a phone line out of them too. Dedicated alarm line and phone line.

If you have Verizon, I would take the SmartHub any day over the Novatel. You can find them for $50 on eBay. Now I just need to find a good WAN Failover script for 2 dynamic IPs...